This is probably true, but I honestly wonder why. Windows is a commodity as far as I understand, which you can get for free with not-so-hidden tricks, which are

This is probably true, but I honestly wonder why. Windows is a commodity as far as I understand, which you can get for free with not-so-hidden tricks, which are also apparently approved by Microsoft themselves. O365 etc. survive due to corporate inertia (Excel), but I wonder if growth stems from new customers vs. big, large customers growing and requiring more licenses while actively looking for replacements. Azure is good, sure, but AWS is better (yeah, the console) and google will probably do anything to not go into irrelevance in this area, so they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. I still have MS stock (with a large payoff atm), but I honestly wonder when it's time to sell.